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Newhouse School to hold Ed Smith Media Literacy Day April 20
The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will host 55 sixth-grade students from the Syracuse City School District’s Edward Smith Elementary School on Friday, April 20, for Newhouse’s sixth annual Media Literacy Day. Sponsored by the Newhouse Diversity Committee, the…
Award-winning ecologist to present 2012 Life Sciences Lecture ‘Is Mother Nature Short Sighted?’
Hanna Kokko, laureate fellow at Australian National University, will present “Is Mother Nature Shortsighted?” for the 2012 Jack and Pat Bryan Life Sciences Lecture at Syracuse University. The lecture, which will begin at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, May 1, in the…
SU Showcase 2012 fellows selected
Eight fellows will be recognized and have their sustainability videos screened during SU Showcase on Wednesday, April 18, starting at 3:30 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center. Representing both individual and team efforts, the videos were selected from the…
SU in the News: Friday, April 13
IVMF’s Mike Haynie speaks to the business case for hiring veterans on Wall Street Journal Radio
Final SU Showcase events schedule released
SU Showcase for Sustainability 2012 is just days away and the full schedule of “green economy” events slated for April 18 has been confirmed. This daylong celebration of sustainability initiatives and works by Syracuse University and SUNY College of Environmental…
Finalists announced for sixth annual Mirror Awards
Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications has announced the finalists in the sixth annual Mirror Awards competition honoring excellence in media industry reporting. The competition drew more than 300 entries. Winners will be announced at a June 13 awards ceremony in…
Conference to explore community-based activism
Syracuse University will present: “Reading, Writing, and Speaking for Change: Conference on Activism, Rhetoric and Research (CARR),” from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, May 5, in the Hall of Languages. Keynote speakers are Seth Kahn of West Chester University of…
Elevating environmentally: 2012 SU, SUNY-ESF grads to wear sustainable Commencement gowns
At the Syracuse University/SUNY-ESF 2012 Commencement celebration May 13, nearly 98,000 plastic bottles will be on display in the Carrier Dome, not in their original container shape, but in the form of 3,900 graduation gowns donned by students. New this…
SU humanities panel explores ‘cultural politics of images’ April 18
The cultural politics of images is the subject of the next installment of “IMAGES? Precisely!,” a lecture series organized by Mark Linder, inaugural Chancellor’s Fellow in the Humanities, as part of the Syracuse University Humanities Center’s new Transdisciplinary Humanities Project….
La Casita to screen ‘Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth’
From April 9-17, a group of 15 undocumented youth and their supporters are walking 150 miles from New York City to Albany to raise awareness of, and gain support for, the New York Dream Act, which would remove barriers to…